21 February 2008
News and Comments – 02/21/08
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: What's News .
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Cavetrollhead Says:
21 February 2008 at 1:12 am.
I got his in an email.
Diminish Media Research Center
Douglas Mills, Executive Vice President
Any lingering doubts that the liberal media have an election
year agenda ended yesterday.
Take a look at how the Big Three’s evening broadcasts handled
Michelle Obama’s outrageous comments that “for the first time
in my adult life, I am proud of my country.”
ABC — not even a mention!
CBS — pure pro-Obama spin-machine
NBC — turned the embarrassing Obama quote into an attack on
John McCain’s wife!
Cavetrollhead Says:
21 February 2008 at 1:14 am.
Here is the article:
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2008/cyb20080220.asp#1
Mac Says:
21 February 2008 at 8:50 am.
MSM did this kind of thing for McCain and now they are using it against him. I bet he is freaking out since he knows how well these tactics work. Don’t people get it by now? Does being a liberal mean you swallow all the twists and turns of the press?
Cameron Says:
21 February 2008 at 9:11 am.
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — John McCain denied a romantic relationship with a female telecommunications lobbyist on Thursday and said a report by The New York Times suggesting favoritism for her clients is “not true.”
“I’m very disappointed in the article. It’s not true,” the likely Republican presidential nominee said as his wife, Cindy, stood alongside him during a news conference called to address the matter.
McCain described the woman in question, lobbyist Vicki Iseman, as a friend.
POLITICS BLOG: McCain responds directly
The newspaper quoted anonymous aides as saying they had urged McCain and Iseman to stay away from each other prior to his failed presidential campaign in 2000. In its own follow-up story, The Washington Post quoted longtime aide John Weaver, who split with McCain last year, as saying he met with lobbyist Iseman and urged her to stay away from McCain.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-02-20-mccain-report_N.htm
Cameron Says:
21 February 2008 at 9:17 am.
WASHINGTON – The government’s top campaign finance regulator says John McCain can’t drop out of the primary election’s public financing system until he answers questions about a loan he obtained to kickstart his once faltering presidential campaign.
Federal Election Commission Chairman David Mason, in a letter to McCain this week, said the all-but-certain Republican nominee needs to assure the commission that he did not use the promise of public money to help secure a $4 million line of credit he obtained in November.
McCain’s lawyer, Trevor Potter, said Wednesday evening that McCain has withdrawn from the system and that the FEC can’t stop him. Potter said the campaign did not encumber the public funds in any way.
McCain, a longtime advocate of stricter limits on money in politics, was one of the few leading presidential candidates to seek FEC certification for public money during the primaries. The FEC determined that he was entitled to at least $5.8 million. But McCain did not obtain the money, and he notified the FEC earlier this month that he would bypass the system, freeing him from its spending limits.
Jesse Says:
21 February 2008 at 10:24 am.
I don’t think this will effect McCain much for two reasons. People get so burned out from all the muck in politics that they start not caring. Plus a lot of Republicans will see this as the libs trying to destroy our guy and will not believe anything.
Chuck C Says:
21 February 2008 at 11:18 am.
The Republican Fisherman
A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, ‘Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.’
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, ‘You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.’
She rolled her eyes and said, ‘You must be a Republican.’
‘I am,’ replied the man. ‘How did you know?’
‘Well,’ answered the balloonist, ‘everything you told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost. Frankly, you’ve not been much help to me.’
The man smiled and responded, ‘You must be a Democrat.’
‘I am,’ replied the balloonist. ‘How did you know?’
‘Well,’ said the man, ‘you don’t know where you are or where you are going. You’ve risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it’s my fault.’
– email from my sister-in-law this morning.
T. Fan Says:
21 February 2008 at 11:35 am.
Right but that rising bag of hot air is making Michelle Obama proud of our country for the first time in her adult life.
E.E. Says:
21 February 2008 at 11:42 am.
Jesse, you called it. Rush said that lots of Republicans who weren’t crazy about McCain are now circling the wagons. We can attack him because we’re family but when the libs do then we support McCain. People are so easy to read.
Chuck C Says:
21 February 2008 at 12:50 pm.
Part of a letter from Jefferson to Madison, Paris, January 30th, 1787
This portion is in regards to the Shay’s Rebellion:
… Societies exist under three forms, sufficiently distinguishable: (1) without government, as among our Indians; (2) under governments, wherein the will of everyone has a just influence, as is the case in England, in a slight degree, and in our states, in a great one; (3) under governments of force, as is the case in all other monarchies, and in most of the other republics.
To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep. It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that the first condition is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population. The second state has a great deal of good in it. The mass of mankind under that enjoys a precious degree of liberty and happiness. It has its evils, too, the principal of which is the turbulence to which it is subject. But weigh this against the oppressions of monarchy, and it becomes nothing. … Even this evil is productive of good. It prevents the degeneracy of government and nourishes a general attention to the public affairs.
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
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Shay’s Rebellion, which had a very direct impact on Washington agreeing to attend the Constitutional Convention, is very much misunderstood, according to historian Leonard Richards: “The American Revolution’s Final Battle”.
TAXES AND SPECIAL INTERESTS
During the Revolution, the Continental Congress had issued irredeemable paper currency to pay for the war, the infamous Continentals, as in “not worth a Continental.” These notes quickly fell to zero value. States issued IOU’s to pay militia members. Notes issued in April, 1778, in Massachusetts quickly fell 25 percent of their face value. By 1781, they were at two percent of face value. Other states followed suit. Virginia’s notes fell to one-thousandth of face value. Soldiers in the field sold these notes in order to keep their families solvent. The political question after independence was attained in 1783 revolved around the redemption price. At what percent of face value would states repay note-holders?
Unlike all other states, Massachusetts’ legislature passed a law to redeem the notes at face value. The legislature was dominated by Boston’s mercantile interests. While it is not possible to trace the ownership of all of the debt after the war, what can be traced indicates that 80 percent of the speculators lived in or near Boston, and almost 40 percent was held by 35 men. Most had bought these notes at tremendous discounts. Then, to add insult to injury, interest on these notes was retroactively made payable in silver. To pay off these speculators, taxes were raised. The main ones were the poll tax and the property tax.
So, here were these farmers in Western Massachusetts, who mainly used the barter system, being levied taxes so the rich guys who had bought their worthless Continentals could redeem them at face value. Talk about unfair! They were being taken advantage of coming and going!
What has this got to do with today? Well, lots of connections could be drawn, but mostly it is the fact that special interests are affecting the political process today, and it is very often hidden from us… the same as the special interests passed laws in Massachusetts back then to make a killing by redeeming worthless script at face value, and paid for by taxing the very people they had fleeced.
Special Interests… John McCain… Keating (Cheating) Five… Billion dollar bailouts… McCain says, “I’m very disappointed in the (New York Times) article. It’s not true, I’ve served this nation honorably for more than half a century. At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust.”
I’m not surprised the New York Times reported this story. We knew they would sooner or later. (The babe angle is new to me) Now we’ve got Bush as a Lame Duck and McCain a Sitting Duck. What a revoltin’ situation!
More on this angle about Shay’s Rebellion at: http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north247.html
Cameron Says:
21 February 2008 at 12:59 pm.
This was new to me and pertinent for us today. Very interesting. It reminds me of the sayiing that goes something like, if we don’t learn from the past we are doomed to repeat it.
Saddened Says:
21 February 2008 at 1:26 pm.
lame duck, sitting duck…good one
Ghost Says:
21 February 2008 at 5:04 pm.
I’m a history nut so I enjoyed reading Chuck’s post. Seems kind of like the housing crisis. People can’t pay so they are kicked out. Loaning institutions can’t pay so they are bailed out. Not exactly the same but still the same mind set.
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